Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-10-13
TsH annual session of the general as


TsH annual session of the 1enoro1 as
emily of the Knights of Labor opened
IN Minneapolis Monday morning.
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THE separation of the B. & 0. railroad
and the B. &. 0. telegraph is complete.
Two brothers named Moran, from Ar
dake, Dakota, en- route for Canada were
asphyxiated by gas in Chicago hotel,
Monday night.
THE tug Orient sunk on Lake Huron
Wednesday aud her crew of six men
erished
THE sale of the B. g. o. telegraph to
the W. U. company has been completed
and the contract signed.
The president visited the military en-
cam pment at Chicago Thursday morning.
Mrs. Cleveland wisely remained at the
hotel and rested the while.
II is stated in New York that the terms
by which the Western Union telegraph
company is to absorb the Baltimore d
Ohio company have been agreed upon.
THE Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, of Lon
don, delivered eulogy upon the late
Henry Ward Beecher, at the Brooklyn
academy of music last night.
The lake passenger propeller, Cali
fornia, foundered and went TO pieces off
st. Helena, in lake Michigan, early Tues
day morning. and fourteen lives were
lost.
By tho explosion of an old boiler in a
flour mill at St, Louis Monday morning,
four persons were killed and two others
seriously injured.
TnE one great question to be discussed
by the Farmers Alliance at Minneapolis
is cooperative buying and selling, and it
will occupy much the time OF the con
vention.
ARRANGENENTs are reported to have
been made for a direct telegraph route
from China TO Europe. This if consu-
mated Will give the reading public news
daily direct from China.
In coat young Schnaebeles, tbs son of
his French dad, three weeks impriso
ment and twenty marks fine to cross the
frontier ana ailix q reasonable placard
upon a tree by the roadside.
FouR more deaths from cholera have
occurred on Swineburn island, which
makes total of fourteen deaths from
the disease since the landing of the
Alsace eileen days ago. There are at
present ten others sick with the disease.
Tur Nebraska republicans in state con
vention Wednesday night and Thursday,
nominated Judge Samuel Maxwell as
Judge of the supreme court and r.
Davis and George Roberts as regents of
the state university.
Tur Mexican congress will pass the
resolution now pending before that body
approving the constitutional amendment
permitting the re-olectiont of President
Diaz for second term. Two-thirds of
the states have ratified the amendment
and this gives it the force Of law.
Ex-Gov WILLIAM B. WAsuBURS, of
Springfield, Mass, dropped dead at about
10 o'clock Wednesday morning while in
the ante room of the city hall. He was
in attendance upon the morning session
of the board of foreign missions when
death overlook him.
TuE National farmers alliance ad
iourned its annual session at Minneapolis
Thursday to meet next year in Des
Moines, Iowa. The alliance elected j.
N. Burrows, of Nebraska, president; Ex
Senator L, d. Whitney, of Illinois, vice
president; August Post, of Iowa, score
AIRY; j. j. Furlong, of Minnesota, treas
urer, aud A. d. Chase, of Dakota, lee
turer.
ONE can scarcely ever step out upon
thoroughfare without having his feelings
sorely hurt by the cruelty SO commonly
practiced toward the patient and faithful